2015年5月29日 · Thus "dog" is the signifier and an (our mental image of) an actual dog is the signified. sense/reference help us differentiate a case where 1 signified has more than 1 signifier. Frege gives the famous example of 'The Morning Star' and 'The Evening Star' which both refer to the same object ie Venus (yet another signifier/sense).

2022年10月1日 · The term “sound-image” seems to suggest a mental image that the signifier evokes, but then the explanations from all sources seem to say that it doesn’t involve image, only words and sounds. Why is it called “sound-image” then?

2020年3月16日 · However, he cautioned that "it is a great mistake to consider a sign as nothing more than the combination of [signifier] and [signified]," as the signified is as continuous in nature as its signifier; to quote Fredric Jameson, "our understanding proceeds from one whole or Gestalt to the other, rather than on a one-to-one basis."

2015年6月7日 · You ask about something being both icon, index and symbol for a community of speakers. But, of course, something being a sign for something in a community of speakers is the very definition of symbol which describes a situation where the signifier (vehicle) is related to the signified (object) through convention.

2019年5月29日 · I'm referring here to the distinction Frege made in his paper called " Sense and denotation". A classical example is " the morning star" and " the evening star" : different senses but same denota...

2019年8月14日 · Following Max Müller in his Lectures on the Science of Language, one may study the etymologies of supposed onomatopoetic words to see whether they obey the sound laws that have governed the evolution of the bulk of vocabulary, or whether words that sound like their referents are exceptions to the sound laws.

Biplanarità (not sure how to translate it): This is the most obvious property and it defines the correspondence between signifier (the form taken by a certain sign) and signified (the meaning conveyed). So for example, cat is a signifier, it's a word. The animal we think of by reading that word is the signified, i.e. the meaning the word conveys.

Assumptions. Reference: a unique and real entity that an expression represents.; Sense: a facet of a referent that an expression represents.

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2016年4月16日 · An example of a sign whose sign-vehicle uses existential facts is smoke as a sign for fire; the causal relation between the fire and smoke allows the smoke to act as a signifier. Other cases are the molehill example used earlier, and temperature as a sign for a fever.